User:MIGUELbM/Muna v2.8

Phonology

Phonemic Inventory

Consonants
	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	[ŋ]	[ɴ]
Stop	p	t	k	[ʔ]
Fricative	f β	s ð	ɣ	h [ɦ]
Approximant		j
Flap or tap		ɾ
Lateral app.		l

Consonants between brackets are only allophonic.

Vowel Inventory

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i u e ə̥ o a
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Syllable Structure

(C₁)V(C₂)

• C₁: a consonant other than /ɾ l s n/
• C₂: one of /ɾ l s n/
• V: a vowel

Allophony

• [n] assimilate in place of articulation to following consonants
• [h] become voiced [ɦ] between voiced vowels
• [ə̥] are assimilated into aspiration after stops [p t k]
• [ə̥] become [ʔ] word-initially
• [ə̥] become [ɦ] between vowels

Orthography

Romanization
Phoneme	Grapheme
m	m
n	n
p	p
t	t
k	k
f	f
β	b
s	s
ð	d
ɣ	g
h	h
ɾ	r
l	l
a	a
e	e
i	i
o	o
u	u
ə̥	'

Nouns

Affixes

Function		Use
Number	Singulative	Indicates a single instance of a mass noun
	Plural Plurative	Indicates multiple instances of countable and mass nouns
Cases	Nominative	Indicates the agent of a verb
	Absolutive	Indicates the direct object of a verb
	Genitive	Indicates relationship or possesion
	Dative Benefactive	Indicates the indirect object of a sentence or the beneficiary of the action
	Instrumental	Indicates an instrument or tool used to perform the action
	Comitative	With something
	Abessive	Without something
	Locative	Indicates place or time of the action

Verbs

Tenses

		Second affix
		None	Past	Present	Future
First affix	None	Gnomic	Past perfective	Present perfective	Future perfective
	Past	Past perfective	Past retrospective Distant past	Past continuous	Past prospective
	Present	Present perfective	Present retrospective	Present continuous	Present prospective
	Future	Future perfective	Future retrospective	Future continuous	Future prospective Distant future

Morphosyntax

It's an active-stative language

Main word order is VSO, tends to be head initial.

Relative clauses